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Watch Ronald McDonald Give Allen's Minor League Hockey Team a Stirring Pep Talk

As the U.S. men's hockey team prepared to take the ice before its improbable win over the Soviet Union in the 1980 Winter Olympics, head coach Herb Brooks said a few words. His speech, or, more accurately, a Hollywood writer's imagining of it, was dramatized by Kurt Russell in the 2004 film Miracle. ... More >>

How Texas Came Within an Atom's Breadth of Discovering the God Particle

Big Biz Made a Bargain With the GOP's Devils. Here Comes the Bill.

Big business is finally figuring out what Democrats have been saying since the worst days of George W: that the genius idea of Bush's brain, Karl Rove, was a Faustian bargain with that powerful and elusive element of American political landscape -- the ignorati. Now the ignorati are demanding thei ... More >>

From Texas or Russia, Medicare Scamsters Are All the Same -- Greedy

Here we are, with the biggest Medicare fraud in history going -- so we are told -- and The New York Times devotes its front page today to a story about Medicare fraud carried out by organized Russian gangs in ... oh, guess where! ... New York City! What can we do down here in Dallas to get respect? ... More >>

Whitt's End: 8.19.11

​Whether you've reached the end of your rope or merely the end of your week, welcome to Whitt's End:Talked to the family of Shannon Stone for next week's Observer column. Wait until you hear their other sad story involving a souvenir ball from a Rangers' game. Sorry, you have to wait.Not ... More >>

We Are the World: If We Want Dallas to Be "Truly Great," We Must Begin at the Bottom

​Isn't it interesting? The one question that seems to bubble back to the top time and time again in the ongoing mayor's race is the world-class city thing. Why? Maybe it's just semantics. Maybe what we really mean, when we use that embarrassingly pretentious, transparently insecure term, is ... More >>

The Dallas City Council's Bridge Builders: Not Exactly the Best and Brightest

​Forgive me, or just slap me, if this is way too tea-leaves for you, but I can't help trying to read the dregs, you know, trying to see what's behind the burqa, since this city is such a Talibaptist mystery some of the time. And lately I think I definitely see signs that somebody at The Dallas ... More >>

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Tonight, Tonight: Los Lobos at The Granada and Needtobreathe at House of Blues

A bit of a slow hump day evening, but at least one legendary band is playing our region tonight.

Brave New World

This Week In Dallas Music History: Reverend Horton Heat Goes To Russia, Will Johnson Looks Like a Stoner

​In this edition of This Week In Dallas Music History, we turn our eyes back to September 12, 1991, which was a big week for the Reverend Horton Heat. He and his band were preparing to embark on a tour of Russia and Scandinavia that they were calling the "Arctic Border Blues Festival." The Rev was ... More >>

Giveaway: Five Pairs of Tickets to Mumiy Troll and Run Run Run at The Loft Tonight

Russian rock outfit Mumiy Troll has quite a history. Formed in 1986 after the fall of the Soviet Union, the group has been extremely popular back home, and it appears they are trying to see how folks in the U.S. take to their no-frills pop. Here's what DC9's own Darryl Smyers had to say about them i ... More >>

Tonight at Fest, a Film That Really Does Blend Dallas With "International"

Patrick MichelsJames Gillies and Sharon MacDonald of Scotland were among hundreds of fans who traveled to Southfork in November '08.​Back in November 2008 Patrick Michels and I schlepped out to Southfork Ranch for that clusterfudge of a Dallas reunion, for which thousands of people flew in from al ... More >>

Do You Believe in Miracles ... Ye ... Well, Do You?

I was playing catch on a lazy Friday afternoon, warming up for a chilly practice as a sophomore second baseman on Duncanville High School's baseball team when our coach came running out of the field house: "We did it! We beat the Russians!!" Was an upset last night when the U.S. beat Canada, 5-3, ... More >>

Top 10 Overlooked Culinary Vacations

Flickr user ^riza^It's a long way, but the rendang is worth the trip.​Anyone with the means can travel the villages of Tuscany, visit tasting rooms in Napa Valley or hit Belgium's chocolate shops. In fact, certain places are so well known as culinary destinations, even those with only the faintest ... More >>

Crushing Grain and Slasher Blend Violence And Dark Comedy With Mixed Results

The Lone Grain Man

Mumiy Troll

Thursday, November 5,at Granada Theater

Last Night: Paul McCartney at Cowboys Stadium

Paul McCartneyCowboys StadiumAugust 19, 2009Better than: a competitive round of Rock Band: Beatles, to say the least.Patrick Michels​Download: For more pictures from last night's show, check Patrick Michels' slideshow from the night.For the first hour or so of Paul McCartney's set at Cowboys Stadi ... More >>

Watchmen: Just Watchable

Zack Snyder didn't ruin the graphic novel adaptation, but he doesn't get it either.

Want to save an old hotel? Be our guest.

UNT to Offer Grad-Level Course Dorkdom, Geekness Come Fall

Los Lobos

Friday, June 16, at the Dallas Museum of Art

Pirates of Conspiracy

The artists of Oh6 turn assassination into comic revelry

Bombs & Bikinis

Stealth aims low but hits its mark

Queu's Who

How do you get past a bouncer?

Debate Team

Bad Boy

Peer Gynt is a cautionary tale in tights

A Second Opinion

Our critics pick the flicks that the best-of list overlooked

Drip Dry

Mi Piaci is a still-fresh classic

Red Glare

If nothing else, Nikita is hip and happening--at least for now

Singing the Blues

Documentarian brothers present an enthralling picture of a talented musician

Czech Marked

Sadly, in a Dark Blue World even war heroes can be treated like villains

Feeding Frenzy

Some high-demand fish are in danger of extinction--and restaurants are caught in the middle

Mir Has Two Faces

Mission to Mir reflects the changes since the Cold War

ESP in TX

Explore new worlds, places, and times from the comfort of your own home

From Russia, with Love

Just $25,000 gets you a bundle of hot Russian babes from one Dallas matchmaking firm. What more could a rich American geek ever ask for?

Bad Aim

At the Gates, a gripping showdown is bungled by a love triangle

What Crisis?

How Kevin Costner learned to stop worrying and love the bomb

Letters

Falling down; One deluded man; Family matters; The Stick Men speak

From Russia, with bugs

Scientists from the former Soviet Union's top-secret biological weapons lab join with Dallas researchers to fight a common enemy: the deadly Ebola virus

Old-time religion

Jewish immigrants from the former Soviet Union find a ready teacher in an Orthodox congregation

Red scare

Russia's The Red Elvises are rushing back to rock-and-roll tradition

Letters to the Editor

Published January 20, 1999

Events for the week

Blast from the past

In days of old, when nights were bold

Unkindest cuts

Auteur, auteur!

Burnt by the Sun and The Glass Shield illustrates the pitfalls of total artistic control

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